Higher use of
primary branches in medical education.
by James Tyler Kent, M.D.
Presented by Sylvain CazaletLearn well the anatomy,
pathology, chemistry, diagnosis, and the symptoms and course of every
disease and all disease ultimates, that common symptoms may be quickly
and certainly known.
Dr J. T. KentBy this means it will
be easier to say what symptoms are not common to the case in hand and
thereby to perceive that all symptoms present in a given case which are
not common must be uncommon and predicated
(in general or particular) of the patient. These must be foremost in
guiding to the remedy and the common symptoms may fall in, taking their
place naturally where they belong in each individual case of sickness.
When this method is mastered, prescribing becomes easy, with experience.If we are homœopathicians, how shall we discover it
and prove it to ourselves and others ?We may give the single
dose or repeat our remedies ; we may give potentized remedies in
high or higher potencies ; we may wait ever so long on the action
of our given remedies and yet fail to cure sick folks, and if we fail to
cure sick people we are not homœopathicians.
The curing of sick
people permanently, gently and quicklyis the first and best
test of a homœopathician.This is easier said
than done. It is often only a pretension. It is one thing to cure
chronically sick people and another to cure acutely sick people, or
sickness, or diseases as some would have us say.If the remedy is
properly chosen and properly administered in typhoid fever, how soon
should the patient recover ?This is a question that
every homœopathician should ask himself and by it should be willing to
have himself measured.Looking back over
thirty years I can answer the question better than a young man. My cases
of continued fever with prostration, tympanitic abdomen and sordes on
the teeth recovered inside of two weeks in the first ten years of my
homœopathic practice. In the last twenty years they have all been
aborted in seven to ten days. Not one has continued to progress
according to the usual course of the disease, therefore not one could be
proved to be typhoid by the Widal test.The homœopathician
will never have a case that will stand the eighth day test, therefore,
according to modern science, he will never have a typhoid.Hahnemann says that all
acute diseases should be aborted. Why should we not expect to do this if
Hahnemann did so a hundred years ago ? Why call ourselves
Homœopathicians if we cannot do as well as Hahnemann did ?Why not offer this as
the test of our ability and skill and consciously admit that we must
abort all acute diseases or cease to call ourselves
homœopathicians ?There can be no better
test for our work and for our position than to announce to the world
that we do this, if we do it, and let all others compare their world and
stand or fall by the test of clinical experience.Let the
near-homœopath, the highly scientific laboratory doctor, the Christian
scientist, the eclectic, the osteopath, or whatever he may be, come in
and show what he can do to abort acute diseases. We must stand by the
test.All our
homœopathicians know how to do this work and make good. Hahnemann says
in his ORGANON OF HEALING, paragraph
149.”If we profess to follow
Hahnemann, let us display to man what we do to entitle ourselves to the
name and to disfranchise pretenders. Pretenders wilt at once come to the
front and reveal themselves by denouncing us and affirming that it
cannot be done. They thereby only declare that they cannot do it, and
thereby convict themselves of being only fraudulent or pretended
followers of Hahnemann. Even if they affirm that they are only modern
Homœopaths, they must disclaim on the work they do and not on the
plausibility of their scientific methods or pretensions. “The proof
of the pudding is in the eating of it.”Homœopathicians abort all acute
diseases -what do others accomplish ? It only remains for us to
educate the people so they will know what to expect, and what can be
done and who can do it. But first the education must begin with the
physician, so that he can meet the requirements. Some will say :
“We do not believe it,” which simply means that they have not
seen such results and this only signifies that they do not know how to
apply the remedies homœopathically. Then let the education begin at
home. That there are many professed Hahnemannians who are not doing this
work “n this way is no reason for our silence. It is enough to know
that Hahnemann did it, that many others are doing it, that we should all
do it. If we cannot do so, let us give up our pretensions.Copyright ©
Sylvain Cazalet 2001
